Show all listings for an item on a single page, sorted by per-item price

Buy out multiple listings at the same time

Search for your favorite items with a single click

Sell

Suggest prices based on the current competition

Create multiple listings at the same time

Scan

Download all auction house data in just seconds

Track historical prices and find deals

Add tooltips to items with vendor, auction, and disenchant prices

In short, AuctionLite tries to make the most common auction house tasks as simple as possible, and AuctionLite strives for minimal overhead and clutter in its interface.

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Quick Start

Buying items: Type an item name into the "Buy" tab and click "Search". (You don't have to fill in a quantity.) Select the listings you want to buy, click "Buyout", and then click "Approve". Due to Blizzard's addon restrictions, you will have to click "Approve" once for each listing.

Control-right-click an item in your bags from any AH tab to search on the "Buy" tab

Use shift-click and control-click to select and purchase multiple listings

Selling items: Drag an item from your bags into the "Sell" tab slot. Enter the number and size of the stacks you'd like to sell, adjust prices if necessary, and click "Create Auction".

Alt-right-click an item in your bags from any AH tab to load it into the "Sell" tab

Click on any competing auction to undercut that auction

Use the tab key to jump between fields

Hit enter to start the auction

Scanning: Click "Full Scan" on the "Buy" tab. When scanning is complete, you'll get a list of the best deals currently available at the auction house.

If you navigate away from the deals page, use "Show Deals" in the "Advanced" menu to return

If you are disconnected during scanning, try disabling the fast scan feature (use "/al config")

Click the checkmark next to any item in the "Buy" tab to mark it as a favorite, and then select "Show Favorites" from the

"Advanced" menu to search for all your favorites at once

Go straight to your preferred tab when opening the AH

Open all your bags when visiting the AH

For more details, read on!

Buying Items

To buy an item with AuctionLite, type the name of the item you want into the "Buy" tab and click "Search" (or alt-right-click an item in your bags).

If your search returns only one kind of item, you'll see a list of all auctions for that item, sorted by the per-item buyout price (or per-item bid price, if no buyout price is available). Your own auctions are shown in yellow, and auctions where you are the highest bidder will show the bid price in yellow. If you want to bid or buy out a listing, click on it, click "Bid" or "Buyout", and then approve the purchase. You can select multiple auctions by control-clicking or shift-clicking.

If your search returns multiple items, you'll see a summary of the kinds of items that your search encountered. Click on any of these summary lines to see all listings for that item, as described above. To get back to the summary page, click the arrow button in the upper-left corner of the frame.

If you know exactly how many items you want to buy, type the number into the "Quantity" field when searching. AuctionLite will then offer to fill your order by selecting the auction listings that minimize the total cost to you. AuctionLite is smart enough to find the absolute minimal cost in most cases, including cases where you can buy more items to get a lower total price. If you would like AuctionLite to consider the resale value of excess items when making this decision (e.g., you ask for 10 items, but you'd rather get 11 at 101g than 10 at 100g), then you can enable the "Consider Resale Value" option (use "/al config"). If AuctionLite suggests purchasing more items than you originally requested (for any reason), it will show you to the expected resale value of the excess items and the net cost of the items you requested.

AuctionLite will incorporate all of the price data that your searches return into its historical data. Thus, the prices for items you frequently purchase will always be up to date, even if you don't do full auction house scans.

Favorites

On the "Buy" tab's summary display, you can click on the checkmark to the left of any item to mark it as a favorite (click again to unmark). Then, you can choose "Show Favorites" in the "Advanced" menu to quickly search for all of your favorites. Your favorites will also get bumped to the top of the summary display in any future search.

If you'd like to create multiple favorites lists, you can do so in the AuctionLite configuration screen (use "/al config"). Your lists will show up in a submenu of the "Show Favorites" menu option. When creating a favorites list, you can type any item name, but you must type the entire name exactly as it appears in-game (case does not need to match). You can also drag-and-drop items into the "Add an Item" field.

Your Auctions

In order to see auctions that you're selling, choose "Show My Auctions" from the "Advanced" menu. AuctionLite will search for all your current auctions so that you can see your competition. On the summary screen, any items where you've been undercut will be shown with a red background.

If you'd like to cancel an auction, just click the item, select your listing(s), and click "Cancel". You can select and cancel multiple auctions by using shift-click and control-click.

If you'd like to cancel auctions in bulk, you can do this in a number of ways. First, clicking the "Cancel" button when nothing is selected will cancel all auctions on that page (and all auctions period, if you're on the summary screen!). Second, control-clicking the "Cancel" button will cancel all such auctions that have been undercut (i.e., auctions that have a competitor at a lower per-item price). Finally, you can right-click any line in the summary screen in order to cancel all auctions or cancel undercut auctions.

Selling Items

To sell an item with AuctionLite, start by dragging the item into the box on the "Sell" tab (or by alt-right-clicking an item in your bags). AuctionLite will immediately scan for all competing auctions, and it will suggest an appropriate price for your auction. In addition to setting bid and buyout prices, you can also tell AuctionLite to post multiple stacks of a certain size.

AuctionLite will display a list of competing auctions so that you can verify the accuracy of AuctionLite's suggestions. Any listings shown in gray are listings that AuctionLite considered to be outliers--that is, listings with abnormally low prices. AuctionLite typically chooses a price that is just less than the lowest non-outlier price, since this price is a reasonable estimate of the market-clearing price. If you disagree with AuctionLite's estimate of the market-clearing price, you can click on any auction in the display to undercut it by a few percent. Listings shown in yellow are your own auctions; clicking on them will fill in the prices you set for those auctions.

AuctionLite also shows some historical data for your item in the chat window. Every time AuctionLite scans for an item, it will incorporate the latest prices into its historical data, weighted according to the frequency of its scans.

If you want to sell items quickly, you can use alt-right-click even on the "Browse" tab in order to move an item into the "Sell" tab. If you approve of AuctionLite's initial suggestions, hitting enter will post the auction immediately.

If you'd like to save settings for a particular item, click the down arrow near the item slot in the "Sell" tab. Selecting any of these options will save your current stack size, stack count, or prices for future use.

You can tell AuctionLite to scan all listings in the auction house by clicking the "Full Scan" button on the "Buy" tab.

After all auction data has been retrieved, AuctionLite will analyze the data and record the current market prices for later use. AuctionLite will take into account how frequently and how recently you've scanned, so there's no need to worry about how often you scan. Note that if you cancel the scan by closing the auction house, no data will be recorded.

AuctionLite also stores all price data from your scans in the "Buy" and "Sell" tabs, so even if you don't scan frequently, the prices for items that you buy and sell will stay up to date.

Deals

After you've completed a full scan, AuctionLite will search for all items in the auction house that are underpriced relative to previous scans, and it will show you these items ranked by potential profit. If you navigate away from this screen, you can recall the list of deals from the last scan of your current AH visit by going to "Advanced" and clicking "Show Deals". To set the parameters for this search, go to the AuctionLite options screen (in the "Advanced" menu) and set the minimum profit and the minimum discount relative to previous prices.

Tooltips

AuctionLite adds a few lines to the bottom of each item tooltip in the game to show the vendor sell price, the expected disenchant value, and the estimated auction house value. The disenchant value is based on the current value of the disenchanted dust/essences/shards at the auction house.

By default, AuctionLite shows the value for the entire stack. However, if you'd like to see the per-item price instead of the per-stack price, just hold the shift key. If you'd like this to be the other way around (i.e., per-item prices normally, and per-stack prices when holding shift), this setting can be adjusted in the AuctionLite options screen (type "/al config").

If you'd rather not see AuctionLite's information in tooltips, they can be customized or disabled in the AuctionLite options screen (type "/al config"). You can set each line in the tooltip so that it always appears, never appears, or appears only if the applicable data is available (e.g., if we have an auction house price for that item).

External API

AuctionLite supports Tekkub's GetAuctionBuyout interface, so any addon that uses this interface will automatically be able to retrieve price data from AuctionLite.

In addition to this standard interface, other addons that wish to use AuctionLite's data can use the following methods:

These methods return AuctionLite's disenchant and auction prices, which are the same numbers you see in the tooltips. You can pass an item string, an item link, or an item ID, but note that if you pass an ID for an item that typically has a suffix (e.g., "of the Monkey"), then you need to provide the suffix as the second argument. AuctionLite doesn't track bid prices--just buyout prices.

Acknowledgments

Huge thanks to cyberloras for keeping AuctionLite up to date with the most recent WoW API changes!

Thanks to mysticalos, kolenka, phanx, inexstinctus, vebev, and haghala for contributing bug fixes and features, and thanks to the Curse/WowAce/WowInterface community for their bug reports and suggestions.

Many, many thanks to the folks who took the time to translate AuctionLite to other languages!

Brazilian Portuguese: phalk, renanwar

French: Pettigrow, FreakyGreaser

German: nesta666, Farook, archiv, callmechris, tholas1234, hero66

Italian: _YuSaKu_, kappesante

Korean: eljei, san0713, kdw112, maknae, netaras, Sayclub, ohmytrance

Russian: Vampik, RustamIrzaev, StingerSoft, apeironfag, KVVV

Simplified Chinese: tnt2ray, wowuicn, dh0000

Spanish: karrash76, virginc

Traditional Chinese: tnt2ray, a9012456, s8095324, zhTW

Version History

Changes in v1.8.14:

Updated for WoW 6.2

Changes in v1.8.13:

Updated for WoW 6.0 (thanks, cyberloras!)

Uses exact search when shift key is held (thanks, cyberloras!)

Changes in v1.8.12:

Updated for WoW 5.4

Changes in v1.8.11:

Updated for WoW 5.3

Changes in v1.8.10:

Updated for WoW 5.2

Battle pets can only be sold one at a time (Blizzard restriction :-()

Updated disenchant tables (thanks, Inexstinctus!)

Changes in v1.8.9:

Added Italian and Spanish localizations

Changes in v1.8.8:

Updated for WoW 5.1

Battle pets can now be sold via AL

Updated localizations

Changes in v1.8.7:

Fixed glyph taint issues (Thanks, Szandos!)

Changes in v1.8.6:

Added Brazilian Portuguese localization (Thanks, Phalk & Renanwar!)

Changes in v1.8.5:

More WoW 5.0.4 updates (Thanks, Mysticalos!)

Changes in v1.8.4:

Updated for WoW 5.0.4 (Thanks, Cyberloras!)

Changes in v1.8.3:

Updated for WoW 4.3

Changes in v1.8.2:

Updated for WoW 4.2

Fixed a bug on the "open all bags" feature

Fixed the assertion failures in QueryAuctions (hopefully)

Changes in v1.8.1:

Added placement options for tooltips in AL tabs

Added the option to undercut auctions by a fixed amount

Fixed problems when spam-cancelling auctions

Fixed Lua error when creating a new favorites list

Changes in v1.8:

Fix bug that would occasionally cause unintended purchases when clicking through long lists of approvals (hopefully!)

Added placement options for tooltips in AL tabs

Changes in v1.7.4:

Fix breakage in previous version due to missing localization string

Changes in v1.7.3:

You can now repeatedly click the cancel button to cancel multiple auctions

Workaround for fast scan errors (due to a Blizzard bug)

Changes in v1.7.2:

No changes; version number incremented to resolve packager problems

Changes in v1.7.1:

Eliminate UpdateDeposit() Lua errors

Changes in v1.7:

Updated for WoW 4.0.1

Due to a change in Blizzard's interface, mass buyout now requires a click on the "Approve" button for each listing :-(

For the same reason, posting partial stacks has been disabled :-(

Changes in v1.6.4:

Hold the control key when placing an item in the "Sell" tab to skip the scan

Menus showing your favorites lists are now sorted

Fixed a bug with per-stack saved prices

Changes in v1.6.3:

More updates for WoW 3.3.3

Fix auction duration bug

Use new multi-auction interface

Use old graphics for all parts of "Sell" tab (for now!)

Changes in v1.6.2:

Updated for WoW 3.3.3

Changes in v1.6.1:

Updated disenchant tables

Updated localizations

Changes in v1.6:

Multiple favorites lists can now be created in the AuctionLite configuration screen

Stack size, stack count, and price preferences can be saved on a per-item basis in the "Sell" tab using the menu next to the item's icon

Localizations have been updated

Future localizations will be populated automatically from Wowace.com, resulting in much faster turnaround time

Changes in v1.5.4:

Suppress Blizzard auction messages in all chat windows

Fixed another bug in tooltip vendor prices

Changes in v1.5.3:

Fixed bug in stack creation when posting auctions

Fixed bug in tooltip vendor prices

Changes in v1.5.2:

Updated for WoW 3.3

Changes in v1.5.1:

Fixed bug when default stack size is set to 1

Updated French and Russian localization files

Changes in v1.5:

Click the "Cancel" button on the "Buy" tab in order to cancel all auctions of yours on the current display (clicking on the "Show My Auctions" screen will cancel everything)

Control-click as above to cancel auctions that have been undercut

Right-click items on the summary screen in order to "Cancel All Auctions" or "Cancel Undercut Auctions"

Confirmation screen when cancelling auctions with bids

Confirmation screen when posting items below vendor price

Chat window shows total value of auctions posted

Fixed bug in automatic stack size computation

Updated localization files

Changes in v1.4.1:

Fixed Lua error that appeared when one of your favorites is not found.

Changes in v1.4:

Suppress "Auction won" spam when buying/selling/cancelling auctions

Show how many auctions are yours in the "Buy" tab's summary screen

Auction data storage can now be disabled/cleared

Localization updates

Changes in v1.3:

Updated for WoW 3.2

AL now uses WoW's built-in vendor data, reducing its memory footprint by a few megabytes

AuctionLite:GetVendorValue() and GetSellValue are no longer supported

Changes in v1.2.1:

Fixed bug in German translation

Added Russian translation

Changes in v1.2.0:

Specify one extra stack in the "Sell" tab to sell excess items as a smaller stack (e.g., if you have 50 items and you enter "3 stacks of 20", AL will create 2 stacks of 20 and 1 stack of 10)

When the number of stacks to sell is changed, the size of the stacks will be adjusted if necessary (e.g., if you have 20 items and you specify 20 stacks, AL will set the size to 1 automatically)

New options for customizing the default number/size of stacks

Vendor data updated for WoW 3.1.1

Miscellaneous bug fixes

Changes in v1.1.5:

Updated for WoW 3.1

Changes in v1.1.4:

Fixed bug when sorting favorites that aren't currently in the AH

Changes in v1.1.3:

Much smarter algorithm for choosing listings in "Buy" tab

Buying/canceling the last listing for an item will take you to the summary view

Changes in v1.1.2:

Recently sold items no longer appear in "Show My Auctions"

All favorites appear in "Show Favorites", even if they're not currently in the AH

Originally posted by Lephturn Well it seemed better recently. I got a few fast scans in.

This may be Bliz throttling because the server is slammed. The times I seem to have trouble are when the server seems very overloaded, and things are happening like I can't zone into an instance.

That's my guess as well. I think every fast scan I've tried in the past couple days has come back in 10s or so. Hopefully it'll stay that way!

I'd like to also try starting from scratch in case my existing data is bad. If I remove the Auctionlite directories from my Addons folder, do I need to go clean anything else out of WTF? I'm interested to try a clean start and see what happens.

You actually don't need to remove anything from the Addons folder. All you need to do is remove the file WTF/Account/<YOURACCOUNT>/SavedVariables/AuctionLite.lua, which will reset everything to a pristine state.

Also is there any way to see how long it took if I'm not watching it? I tend to alt-tab out while I'm scanning. I guess I should try turning off the "display favourites after scan" option.

Nope, no way to tell right now. I'll consider adding it in a future version!

This may be Bliz throttling because the server is slammed. The times I seem to have trouble are when the server seems very overloaded, and things are happening like I can't zone into an instance.

I'd like to also try starting from scratch in case my existing data is bad. If I remove the Auctionlite directories from my Addons folder, do I need to go clean anything else out of WTF? I'm interested to try a clean start and see what happens.

Also is there any way to see how long it took if I'm not watching it? I tend to alt-tab out while I'm scanning. I guess I should try turning off the "display favourites after scan" option.

Originally posted by Lephturn It does scan for me, if I wait long enough. But it's like it's not fast scanning at all. Since the upgrade for 3.1 I have not had a real Fast Scan (10-15 seconds) like I was used to. It's set to do a Fast Scan, but it feels like a normal scan.

Can I send you anything to help?

The best thing you could do is to help narrow down conditions under which the fast scan seems to fail. It's a bit difficult for me to debug the problem, since I can only test the scan once every 15 minutes or so!

Unfortunately, so far I've found no rhyme or reason to the fast scan behavior. I tried it several times tonight, and it worked fine every time, with delays between 10s and 40s. But at other times, I've cancelled the fast scan after 5 minutes when there was no end in sight.

You might want to try disabling other addons to see if that helps. You might also try flipping over to Blizzard's "Browse" tab and back when a scan seems to have gone on too long. Let me know if either of these help.

Anyway, the best thing you can do is to give it a try as often as you can and see if you can provide any more data on what you were doing when it worked and what you were doing when it failed. I'll keep doing the same...

Originally posted by Merial Yeah, I've seen this too--I agree that something is fishy here. I'll investigate further. Thanks for the tip!

It does scan for me, if I wait long enough. But it's like it's not fast scanning at all. Since the upgrade for 3.1 I have not had a real Fast Scan (10-15 seconds) like I was used to. It's set to do a Fast Scan, but it feels like a normal scan.

Originally posted by tessatestaro I was wondering if you'd add a feature where if you hold down alt or ctrl or shift (or combination, doesnt matter) and click an item, it'd automatically set the item on the sell panel (so you wouldn't have to always drag an item from your bag to the sell window)--this would greatly expediate selling process for bulk item sellers like me

Already there! Alt-right-click will put an item in the "Sell" tab, and control-right-click will search for the item in the "Buy" tab. These shortcuts work from any tab in the auction house.

Originally posted by captchasareass When fast scanning is enabled hitting the scan button does nothing at all. It just sits there at 0% forever. I went and made lunch one test so I know it was well over 5 minutes. Doesn't matter what time of day I try either.

Slow scanning works fine and finishes is 5 to 6 minutes.

Yeah, I've seen this too--I agree that something is fishy here. I'll investigate further. Thanks for the tip!

Originally posted by Phanx Have you considered using ItemPrice-1.1 for vendor prices? It seems kind of silly that I'm loading two item price databases, one for AuctionLite and one for every other addon I use that wants to know vendor values.

When I originally looked at ItemPrice, the prices were a little out of date with respect to the ones that AuctionLite has. I'll give it another look, though, and switch over if it seems appropriate.

When fast scanning is enabled hitting the scan button does nothing at all. It just sits there at 0% forever. I went and made lunch one test so I know it was well over 5 minutes. Doesn't matter what time of day I try either.

Originally posted by tessatestaro I was wondering if you'd add a feature where if you hold down alt or ctrl or shift (or combination, doesnt matter) and click an item, it'd automatically set the item on the sell panel (so you wouldn't have to always drag an item from your bag to the sell window)--this would greatly expediate selling process for bulk item sellers like me

Thank you and keep up the great work!

Ooo, I second this one! Especially if it took any existing item in the sell window (i.e. that I've decided not to sell based on the current competition) and put it back in my bags, ideally in the same spot (it's got a shadow, so hopefully WoW will tell you where that was, or you'll remember if I used your click function to put it in the sell window in the first place. 8)

Have you considered using ItemPrice-1.1 for vendor prices? It seems kind of silly that I'm loading two item price databases, one for AuctionLite and one for every other addon I use that wants to know vendor values.

Since 3.1, scanning is taking forever. I have Fast Scan enabled, but it seems to just go and go. I normally give up after 5+ minutes. Maybe I need to reset something? It still does my favorites just fine, but a Full Scan is not working for me, where before it was 10-15 seconds. Any ideas? I'm fine to dump all my data if that's the solution. Should I try and wait one out and see what happens?

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